SuSE 11.0 gcc/g++ 4.3

[David C. Manuelda]

On Saturday 26 April 2008 20:18:06 Gregory Meyer, CPA wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David C. Manuelda <stormbyte at gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On Saturday 26 April 2008 19:15:29 Donn Washburn wrote:
> > > David C. Manuelda wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 18:43:59 Donn Washburn wrote:
> > > >> Hey Group;
> > > >>
> > > >> It seems SuSE 11.0 sent out it's normally broken Amarok version.
> > > >> To add to that, they are now only using gstreamer-yauap. Problem
> > > >> with
> >
> > it
> >
> > > >> is that it is missing a lib.la.  So, amarok engine shows only "no
> > > >> engine"
> > > >>
> > > >> To beat the problem I was going to compile from source.  First
> > > >> taglibs and xine-lib and then Amarok old cvs version and a 04/26/08
> > > >> version. Neither will compile due to gcc 4.3 and g++ 4.3.  gcc 4.2
> > > >> worked.
> > > >>
> > > >> Has anyone gotten this to work?  I may be still missing a
> > > >> dependence.
> > > >
> > > > Then, you should look in google for patches for gcc 4.3 :) I think
> > > > you will find several that you could apply and test, or wait upstream
> > > > to repair that lacks of includes which makes them fail to compile
> > > > against 4.3
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > >
> > > Thanks David;
> > >
> > > I will try to find if there is some related info on the 4.3 issue
> > > The errors came from the G++ and backwards files.h
> >
> > The full explanation of the problem:
> >
> > I do NOT recommend you use gcc 4.3 nowadays if you want to have MOST of
> > packages compiled. The reason: (briefly): gcc team has done a cleanup in
> > most
> > of the standard include files, and thus, a file (or symbol) which got
> > included including another C library file, is no longer included.
> >
> > This requires an extra effort for developers team of each package to be
> > solved, or a user submitting patches (I've done several).
> >
> > For this reason, I do not recommend you to switch to gcc 4.3 yet...
>
> I thought that all the issues with gcc 4.3 were fixed in the 1.4.9.1
> release (except for something in the helix engine).  I was successfully
> able to compile it on Arch Testing (1.4.9 didn't compile, but 1.4.9.1 did)

What I tried to tell you is: maybe amarok issues are solved for gcc 4.3, *BUT* 
there are still a lot of packages (libraries and more) that does not compile 
with 4.3. So for this reason I told you not to upgrade yet :)